When I was undergraduate student, I had the chance to intern at the prestigious news magazine, 60 Minutes. The story above comes from a
meeting I had with the late Mike Wallace. In Digital Storytelling: Capturing Lives, Creating Community, Joe Lambert asks all of us to take “our deeply felt attraction to media” (5) which has worked to silence our own voices, and through digital storytelling, “become storytellers again” (5). Lambert asks his audience to consider the ways stories circulate and how “ordinary stories become extraordinary journeys” (10), that lead to a sense of increased social agency and connection among individuals and communities. The 4th edition builds on previous versions to include examples and guides, responses to changes in media, and foregrounds the vision needed to build a digital storytelling
movement. Additionally, it provides a theoretical and methodological framework along with guidelines that help storytellers understand the fundamentals and purpose of dynamic digital storytelling.
A Journal of Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric